a. Obs. rare–1. Of the nature of affectation. (In the quotation read instead of affectations in Shaks., Merry Wives, I. i. 152.)
1687. M. Clifford, Notes on Dryden, iii. 12. For to me, as Parson Hugh says in Shakespear, they seemed Lunacies, it is mad as a mad Dog, it is affectatious.
